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Though associated with communist leaders, Guo Wengui declared his support for persecuted Falun Gong adherents

Guo Wengui, a Chinese real estate and investment billionaire living in exile, broke a long period of silence this year, giving video interviews with overseas Chinese media in which he described a complex web of business and politics connecting China’s elite.

One of the most surprising revelations to result from Guo’s interviews is what he had to say on the subject of forced organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, in particular from practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that is heavily persecuted by the Chinese regime.

After describing how his now-imprisoned business rival Li You was able to locate a replacement liver without any difficulty, Guo said he made enquiries among his network in China, and found that the liver was to come from a murdered practitioner of Falun Gong (at the time of the interview, Li You had not yet undergone the liver transplant).

In a tweet that followed his second interview, Guo apologized to adherents of Falun Gong, saying that he previously thought that organ harvesting was a hoax. “But judging from Li You getting a new liver, I saw that this kind of thing is really happening! I didn’t make this clear [in the program], so here I express my apologies to Falun Gong believers,” Guo said. Continue reading